Big Ten Football Championship Game: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Big Ten Football Championship Game is a college football game that is held by the Big Ten Conference each year to determine the conference's season champion. The inaugural game was played on December 3, 2011. The games during the next two seasons were held on December 1, 2012, and December 7, 2013. The championship game will pit the division champions from the conference's West and East divisions in a game held after the regular season has been completed.

The winner of this game will earn the Big Ten's automatic berth in the Rose Bowl Game, unless the team is selected to play in the four-team College Football Playoff. If this is the case, they will go to one of the bowls hosting the national semifinals. The winner of this game will also receive the Stagg Championship Trophy (formerly the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy, however Paterno's name was removed following the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State), and the most valuable player of this game will receive the Grange-Griffin Championship Game Most Valuable Player Trophy.

Series details

• Title: Big Ten Football Championship Game
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2011-12-03
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: FOX
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 212 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 8777

Cast and credited roles

• Gus Johnson — Play-By-Play Announcer
• Brad Nessler — Play-By-Play Announcer
• Gary Danielson — Analyst
• Joel Klatt — Analyst
• Jenny Dell — Sideline Reporter
• Jenny Taft — Sideline Reporter
• Tom Rinaldi — Reporter/Storyteller

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 2011: premiered 2011-12-03; final listed air date 2011-12-03; episode order: 1.
• Season 2012: premiered 2012-12-01; final listed air date 2012-12-01; episode order: 1.
• Season 2013: premiered 2013-12-07; final listed air date 2013-12-07; episode order: 1.
• Season 2014: premiered 2014-12-06; final listed air date 2014-12-06; episode order: 1.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-12-05; final listed air date 2015-12-05; episode order: 1.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-12-03; final listed air date 2016-12-03; episode order: 1.
• Season 2017: premiered 2017-12-02; final listed air date 2017-12-02; episode order: 1.
• Season 2018: premiered 2018-12-01; final listed air date 2018-12-01; episode order: 1.
• Season 2019: premiered 2019-12-07; final listed air date 2019-12-07; episode order: 1.
• Season 2020: premiered 2020-12-19; final listed air date 2020-12-19.
• Season 2021: premiered 2021-12-04; final listed air date 2021-12-04.
• Season 2022: premiered 2022-12-03; final listed air date 2022-12-03; episode order: 1.
• Season 2023: premiered 2023-12-02; final listed air date 2023-12-02; episode order: 1.
• Season 2024: premiered 2024-12-07; final listed air date 2024-12-07.
• Season 2025: premiered 2025-12-06; final listed air date 2025-12-06; episode order: 1.
• Season 2026: premiered 2026-12-05; final listed air date 2026-12-05; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

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